Give it 100

This is a log for Give it 100 - a comeptition where i've pledged to do something creative for 100 days. I wouldn't suggest reading it!


Day 100 Weds: hurrah - all done. It's been interesting keeping track of what I've done and realising i do more creative things on a daily basis than I ever imagined. Today i wrote a haiku. I'm off now for a break before starting again - probably in October.
Day 99 Tues - back to knitting the puppy. Started a letter that will form the basis of the story for my final assignment for the course I haven't started yet!
Day 98 Mon - more writing exerices - all about thought unblocking
Day 97 Sun - worked on some writing exercises for the OU
Day 96 Sat - 3 x legs and 2 antenae - can't do body as don't have correct needles with me
Day 95 Fri - knitting 3 x tarantula legs
Day 94 Thurs - knitting 2 x tarantula legs
Day 93 Weds - Surgery - day off! Catch up day was spent learning to knit in the round
Day 92 Tues - ukulele and plans for knitting animals
Day 91 Mon most of the day getting ready for surgery - but fitted in some writing
Day 90 Sun despite kitchen applicances breaking down (fridge freezer and washing machine) managed to write a short poem
Day 89 Sat more ukulele - concentrating on two pieces and defo can see improvement. Puppy's 4th leg half done
Day 88 Fri created form for hedgehog adoptions, finished third leg of puppy and ukulele
Day 87 Thurs Ukulele, puppy and design for hedgehog house
Day 86 Weds - ukulele practice and back to puppy
Day 85 Tues - still in bed - did some design work for Ren's Rescue, Ukulele
Day 84{/b] mon - not too well so stayed in bed and wrote leaflets for Ren's Rescue
Day 83Sun puppy continued - going to take a lot longer than i anticipated. Ukulele practice -going well can play house of the rising sun
Day 82 Sat started knitting a puppy, ukulele practice
Day 81 Frid - Started an OU course on creative writing, did the first few exercises - and didn't play ukulele
Day 80Thurs - wrote out the layout of the village of seaham and played ukulele
Day 79 Weds - wrote a time line for WIP and played ukulele
Day 78 Tues - practice hedgehog knitting, played ukulele
Day 77 Mon learned to knit hedgehogs, played ukulele
Day 76 Sun Wrote an introduction to a friend for PDG and of course ukulele
Day 81Sat Made world map for last homework of Worlds in Progress, more ukulele
Day 80Fri - busy day today so Ukulele practice and a piece for worlds in progress.
Day 79Thurs - more rain, worked on Worlds in progress and nearly got it finished - it's a mix of research and creative writing. good fun, learning stuff that I never thought I'd look into about religion and myths
Day 78Weds - a quiet day indoors due to torrential rain! Lots of ukulele practice, we can add yankee doodle to my repertoire now
Day 77 Tues- more on photograpy - mainly workingout how to use the new camera but editing some pixs and uploading
Day 76 Monday - busy day with photography - mainly pixs of the dogs from our recent trips to the beach.
Day 75 Sun spent most of the day at the demo and sold three tote bags that i designed and printed
Day 74 Sat ukulele my repertoire now includes Mary had a little lamb and yankee doodle
Day 73 Fri Designed a banner for the demo on Sunday
Day 72 Thurs - ukulele practie. can now play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - wow go me :)
Day 71 Weds - an early start to catch some people in Asia on fiverr.com designed two t shirts and got them started on work.
Day 70Tues - totally rearranged the back room so i have somewhere near the kitchen i can use after surgery and where visitors can come. I've come up with (I think) great ideas for graphics.
Day 69Mon couldn't look at land as they haven't cut back the thistles andnettles yet but did start the sanctuay plan yesterday and continued today. The exciting thing is looking at clean living. I've worked out rain capture and now working on electric and sewage!!
Day 68 Sun going to look at land and start planning layout of our sanctuary.
Day 67 Sat back to sock toys. got to get smaller socks or they take up too much stuffing. Working on the pig.
Day 66 Fri ukulele going well. can pick out a few simle tunes like yankee doodle and twinkle twinkle
Day 65 thurs - busy day with the dogs at the beach :) so got home and worked on some easy crocheting ideas - didnt work as well as expected but I think I know why at least.
Day 64 Weds - another day on the Ukulele - can't get to work out how to hold it to leave enough movemet in both hands.
Day 63Tues - ukulele practice went very well! the chords actually sounded like they should, Need to practice moving between them. Also went to knitting group and discussed ideas for knitted animals.
Day 62 Mon - ukulele practice went well. Found a new site with lessons and practicing new (to me) strumming techniques.
Day 61 Sun - early start designing a poster for Ren's Rescue. Uku practice scheduled for 10 don't want to wake the neighbours up to early. they get grumpy!
Day 60Sat - exhausting day down at Princes Quay running a stall for our animal sanctuary. Took some knitting with me to turn into rabbits later on tonight. Now it's time to tune that uku and get strumming.
Day 59 Fri: does assembling IKEA furniture count as creative? Either way I made two sock snowmen - well one's a snowgirl. Belle, a friend's dog, has run off with the snowman's hat. Practiced on the uke for 30 mins - learnt the first four chords C, G7, A minor and F. Wonder what i'll remember tomorrow. Must watch more you tube vids.
Day 58 Have been pondering where to go next with my creativity pledge. Two possible roads (asides from writing that is). One is to actually open the brown cardboard parcel that has my unused ukulele in and start strumming and the other is to focus on making animals to sell for christmas to raise funds for our sanctuary. Would like to do both and write and all the other things i want to do. So going to do 1 hour a day focused on 30 mins on uku and 30 mins on animal crafts as a minimum. Today I wrote a tweet me a story and got the Uke out and tuned it up. Progress - it arrived 6 weeks ago!!
Day 57 Weds Early morning start and Camp NaNo finished. As usual glad I took part but must keep to my vow not to take on anything else did I clear some of the back log on my desk!
Day 56 Tues hopefully the penultimate day of camp Nano - wrote a lot of short pieces about things that irritate me
Day 55 MonGiven the weather started a story about a family preparing to be flooded
Day 54 Sun Continued with Camp NaNo - almost there. Wrote a piece about dog rescue in the UK about 1250 words
Day 53 Sat 1150 words more on Jackson and Annie - they've escaped and have reached the mountains
Day 52 Fri 1100 words on new story Jackson and Annie - introduce characters and story. Decision to run for it.
Day 51 Thurs - written 750 words for campnano and started on design of a room in the houe to be used as meeting space for volunteers and place for me to relax in the evening.
Day 50 Weds HALF WAY! Hurrah hurrah hurrah. Over 1500 words for CampNaNo extending Losing a Friend. Only 50 days to go!
Day 49 Tues 1398 words on Losing a Friend
Day 48 Mon fist draft of the birth of two characters short story - 1k+
Day 47 Sun First draft of political short story. 1k+
Day 46 Sat Over 1k words on the fire and two more characters
Day 45 Fri Camp Nano - 1244 words, description of doing up the cafe and of finding the car
Day 44 Thurs Another Camp NaNo day - going to be like that i guess till the end of July. Did 750 words mainly on the storm.
Day 43 Weds Continued with Camp NaNo - another 1k words - pretty well the first chapter. think I've started at the wrong place though so will re-write for the Hook to Book if I get selected.
Day 42 Tues Finally got started on Camp NaNo and wrote just over 2k words - mainly the setting and the character descriptions
Day 41 Mon Made pom pom tails for the bunnies
Day 40 Sun Went to the knit and sew'cial at the Community Arts centre. Met some great people who were really helpful with idea - especially the long skirt i've plans for. Knitted two squares and turned them into bunnies
Day 39 Sat Worked on the garden again. Need some help with manual work but otherwise it's really coming together. I'm loving the design. Need to get a few more bits of garden furniture and perhaps a stand or two for the plants but have to wait till there's room in the car
Day 38 Fri Worked hard on the blurb for hook to book - think I've sorted it.
Day 37 Thurs looked at patterns for a full length skirt. Need to get some cheap fabric that doesn't need ironing and some wall paper liner to draw out my finished design
Day 36 Wrote another short poem today. Not adding it to my port as only one space left. Need to get upgraded.
Day 35 Hexagons. wow this is beginning to work. Definitely feeling more in control of the process
Day 34 More squar.es - getting faster at this and coming up with some interesting ideas. I want to get a massive hook and rip up old duvet covers to make rag rugs
Day 33 A third of the way through! Tired out and in serious pain most of last night so rested up today. Continued designing squares. Don't think they'll all work together :) but could get a couple of rugs from the different styles. Need to vary texture a bit more methinks.
Day 32 A very busy day running a stall on Pearson Park. Just enough time to crochet some pretty squares for my blanket
Day 31 Made a little stuffed mouse (take 2) that turned into a little stuffed mouse! but the crochet was too loose and you can see all the stuffing - it's ok but not quite as i expected
Day 29 Made a little stuffed mouse. Well it was supposed to be little but turned into a rat - wrong yarn and wrong crochet hook. NVM.
Day 28 Masses of work on the garden. All the bought plants are potted, need to do a bit more with seedlings and give it a clear up and then the small front garden and the sitting area of the large garden are finished! Well finished is a relative term i'll keep picking away at things. I fancy some solar lights. Dog area needs tidying next but back aches so a few days rest.Loving the new designs. Dogs enjoying th paddling pool.
Day 27 Went to new monthly craft group and made granny squares - not so exciting but improved my technique no end and learned a new stich. Also persuaded them to include animals in their craft making ideas to help me. Next month we're working with willow.
Day 26 Pets in the Park spent most of the day working on a stall in west park but had plenty of time to continue with sewing projects.
Day 25No sleep last night so could run the stall today. Plus side was i spent time working in the garden - think i've got my head around the design now on paper at least. Next step is a big clean up.
Day 24 oooh quarter of the way through. Today pretty well finished the main work on the craft room. Been prettying up boxes to store things in. Very busy weekend ahead so don't expect much of me. Fundraising events for the sanctuary both days.
Day 24 Started to turn a spare room into a crafting room. Lots of work yet to do with creating decorations and storage stuff. Also need to buy some chairs and then invite some friends over. Could be fun. This is a big project as I want the room to be totally designed for its purpose and a place people feel comfortable working in.
Day 23: take 2 Made a few flowers.
Day 23: take 1 Today i made the horrible decision to end my beautiful dog's life. She was suffering and there was no possibility of help. Good bye Kiara, I miss you. Nothing creative at all today except tears.
Day 22:Worked on a pattern for a stuffed elephant. tomorrow going to create a pinterest page - i've written that here so i don't forget!
Day 21: Enlarged my stuffed birds to include an owl. Rather pleased with it. Want to look at button making next.
Day 20: Feeling better again today and made a chicken pin cushion.Bit tricky and slow to make and not sure if anyone would buy it but increase skill level
Day 19: this is getting tedious! So back to designing bags to sell. Only made one but it's a good one
Day 18: Back to poetry for today, wrote the outline of a short poem about waking up and facing the day
Day 17: Made a necklace to sell to raise funds
Day 16: Designed a 2nd bag
Day 15: Collected a few flowers to press and built a ramp for my powerchair so i can get in and out of the garden to charge it. also designed a bag and wrote a few lines of poetry
Day 14: decided to enter a competition "it's a wonderful life" so spent an hour putting a short piece together. Want to press some flowers soon. Definitely getting into a routine now.
Day 13: Worked on G&D - need to do decide where to stop! Do I bring the parents into it as well or just leave it with G. Might take a break and go back to creative cooking and a Dog's Life tomorrow - who knows :)
Day 12: Wrote the outline of a short story called George and his Dragon
Day 11: Today I worked more on my next short story called "Lights Out". Major sticking point is I don't know how to punctuate it! Hope to work more on A Dog's Life tomorrow - otherwise I'm going to work on a recipe for seitan.
Day 10: Alredy 1/10th of the way through the challenge. Today was filled with dog walking and attempts to sort out a safe place to charge and store my new power chair. But still squeezed in a four line ditty which I hope to turn into something longer. It's called A Dog's Life at the moment.
Day 9: A very busy day - just time to write a 100 word short story called hypocrisy

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Day 8: Garden design went well. Even managed to rope a friend into helping with some of the heavy lifting. I also started working on my own pattern for a dog bandana. The online ones don't resize well. The big event for the day thought was, total suprise, I won the tweet me a story competition.
This challenge is definitely pushing me in different ways. Tomorrow I'm going to try another short poem.
Day 7: So the first week is over and i'm going strong a quiet day toay but finished yet another bandana. Changed my mind about the short story and worked on a poem instead. Tomorrow is going to be very busy so i think flower making and garden design.
Day 6: Today is bandana day 2. I'm going to try using a different pattern to make Henry a bandana this evening and I've written another little poem today. Tomorrow i must continue my short story and I want to start working on creating a play space for the dogs.
Day 5: knee gave out on me totally last night and I had a scary fall in the bathroom. Scary because i was on my own and couldn't get up for a while. Got to do something about that today. After a lot of rest I made a bandana and wrote a poem - no I'm not sharing it here - it's probably pretty awful but I liked it, so it can stay on my laptop and I'll revisit it later and see what I think. In the meantime I've started reading poetry. Need to find a new bandana pattern but otherwise that's it for the day.
Day 4: A painful day. My knee did its thing, leaving me a limping, slightly whiny, mess. I finished the tea tie dying - and now have, I'm sure, the only tea tie-dyed sling in England. Hurrah or something. My new scissors arrived so I cut out the bandana but will leave sewing till tomorrow. I also worked on the main garden to my house. That didn't feel creative, more like grunt work for my friends, with me supervising. But it's the start of making a garden that has a dog play area, a human sitting area and a vegetable growing area. I also got some great feedback on my first piece of writing "Deception" - it's so good that people take so much trouble to help each other. Tomorrow is definitely dog bandana day but for now its time to check out my new handbag and drink some wine.
Day 3: This creativity business is hard work. Took me 30 mins to find my sewing machine and another 15 to find the iron had hidden itself on the top shelf behind the emergency tins of dog food. Got everything set up and then discovered my scissors are too blunt to cut water, which led to an online shopping session. An hour later I'd ordered pins, sharp scissors, a new handbag, kelp, 2kgs of wheat gluten and a notebook for storing all my writing ideas. Undaunted I moved onto the next project - tie-dying. An old sling (broke my scapula in Nov last year) was volunteered for the task and I got it all tied up ready to plunge into a bath of warm tea only to discover I'd run out of ordinary teabags and couldn't decide if it was an appropriate use for Earl Grey. Ho hum.
On the other hand I did make some stakes for all my new seed trays and am settling down to making some flowers with my knitting loom.
Still no dog bandanas and no tie dyeing achieved but all set up for tomorrow. Lesson for today - get organised.
Day 2: Came to the very obvious realisation that I can either create an entire, tiny project every day or attempt to create a big one and do it badly (see Day 1) or break the big one into stages. Silly me. So today I did the complete the first stage of by dog bandana making project. The pattern is printed, the sizes are established and I've sent out pleas on our facebook page for material. The bandanas will be sold on ebay and the proceeds go to our animal sanctuary. Tomorrow will depend on finding material but I'll definitely get the sewing machine dusted off and try to remember how to use it. I'm also thinking of trying tie dying with tea to see how that works out.
If anyone knows how to link out to a webpage I can show you our website.
Day 1: I entered a 100 word story competition

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